TCM PATTERN/SYNDROME DIFFERENTIATION REVIEW 02: Diagnosis According to Eight Principles 2 скачать в хорошем качестве

TCM PATTERN/SYNDROME DIFFERENTIATION REVIEW 02: Diagnosis According to Eight Principles 2

The Eight Principles is the most important theoretical tool Chinese practitioners use for their diagnosis. It is used to identify the nature of the pattern affecting patients as well as establish what treatment they should pursue. The Eight Principles refer to the Interior/Exterior, Hot/Cold, Excess(Full)/Deficiency(Empty) and Yin/Yang nature of diseases in Chinese Medicine. The Eight Principles were first enunciated by Zhang Jie Ben, a famous Chinese Medicine theoretician, in the 17th century. It has since become the most fundamental process for TCM diagnostic evaluation. It is essentially a way of classifying patterns into logical subgroups that make them easy to diagnose and treat. For instance one of the eight principles is "Cold": it gathers patterns which Western Medicine would describe as "low metabolism" with symptoms like a pale complexion, a weak digestion, hypoglycemia, lowered immunity, anemia.